Item #56101 Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an emigrant to the West. For the benefit of the inquisitive young. By a lover of the studious. Fourth edition enlarged and improved. Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour.
Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an emigrant to the West. For the benefit of the inquisitive young. By a lover of the studious. Fourth edition enlarged and improved

Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an emigrant to the West. For the benefit of the inquisitive young. By a lover of the studious. Fourth edition enlarged and improved

Indianapolis: Printing and Publishing House, 1870. 8vo, pp. xiv, 15-163; original brown cloth; gilt lettering on upper cover; a newspaper clipping written by the author tipped onto front pastedown; pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper; covers faded; spine extremities cracked; otherwise very good. A series of fictitious letters, ostensibly pertaining to local events, written in impossibly difficult English and intended as a study tool for expanding one's vocabulary. The work was popular enough to go through several reprintings. At the time of this book's publication the author, Samuel K. Hoshour (1803-1883), was the State Superintendent of Education for Indiana and an active preacher. Pages 77 to the end contain a "vocab of the unusual words contained in the Altisonant letters." Item #56101

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